‘National & World News’ Archives

Another elderly woman is disenfranchised by the GOP’s war on voting
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is story first appeared at BillMoyers.com.
You may have been voting in the same polling place for longer than your state legislators have been alive, only to find yourself disenfranchised as a result of new restrictive voting laws passed by Republicans as a “solution” to the non-existent problem of voter identification fraud.
It happened to 92-year-old Ruby Barber and 84-year-old Dorothy Card in
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State Department: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Only Create 35 Permanent Jobs
By Zoe Schanger
When the State Department released their report on the Keystone XL pipeline last month, news media focused on the report’s conclusion that the pipeline would not significantly worsen carbon pollution. The finding was broadly declared a win for advocates of the project, who are now imploring the White House to approve it.
But buried in the 11-chapter report was a less sunny detail: the Keystone XL
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Keystone XL could be a terrorist target.
Keystone XL Won't Lower Gas Prices, It Might Raise Them
By Tim Worstall
There’s two things we can say about the effect of the Keystone XL pipeline on gas prices. One is that it will, if built, have no effect at all upon gas prices and the other is that it might actually raise them. Which ends up being the final effect depends upon quite what you want to believe about the way the market operates at present.
The standard view
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7 Stories From Just This Week
By Katie Halper
September 19, 2014
From Ferguson, Missouri to Staten Island, New York, it seems like a new story about police brutality breaks every day. Here are some recent incidents of police violence from around the nation that you may not have heard about. Because honestly, who can keep up?
22-year-old black man police claim they shot in self-defense was actually shot from behind
The two officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Darrien Hunt in
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The Already Asked-And-Answered Questions Fox Wants To Know From The Benghazi Select Committee
May 7, 2014 4:03 PM EDT
OLIVIA KITTEL, MICHELLE LEUNG, & SAMANTHA WYATT
Fox News has pushed reset on many of its favorite Benghazi myths that have already been put to rest in the wake of the recently released Rhodes email and the House GOP's announcement of the formation of a Select Committee to investigate the attacks.
QUESTION: Who Changed The Talking Points?
QUESTION: Why
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Senate candidate Cory Gardner’s campaign sent out a press release on Monday claiming endorsement by the non-partisan ‘No Labels’ group.
Foul, calls ColoradoPols.com, saying, “UPDATE: Hold everything, it looks like Gardner wasn't completely honest about this little "endorsement,"
press release from Gardner’s campaign : “Bipartisan “No Labels” group endorses Cory Gardner.”
But a spokesman for the group later explained to FOX31 Denver that it is “an implied
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Cliven Bundy syndrome: Why Christian conservatives think they’re above the law
From Hobby Lobby to the Nevada rancher, members of the far right share a dangerous, anarchic pathology
Amanda Marcotte, Alternet
The situation with Cliven Bundy of Nevada should be a no-brainer for people from both the left and the right. Bundy has been stealing from the taxpayers for years, illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands while refusing to pay for the privilege. Both liberals and conservatives pay
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Fox News 'Hero' Cliven Bundy Is a Pampered Millionaire, Not a Rugged Rancher
Watching Fox rally to the defense of moneyed interests like mining and ranching is unbearable.
The latest right-wing media poster-victim, Cliven Bundy, is just the latest in a long line of desert dwellers who thinks he or she should not have to follow the law and has a god-given right to unlimited use of public resources, in this case, rangeland. I know the mentality well, because I grew up in rural Nevada and clung
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It’s Time to be Honest: The Tea Party Has Become a Terrorist Group
April 16, 2014 By Allen Clifton
While I’m sure many liberals who come across this headline will have some response like “Duh” or “Tell me something I didn’t already know, ” I think it’s time to put hyperbole aside and get real for a moment.
Sure, for a while many liberals have called tea party supporters domestic terrorists and have accused them of actively trying to sabotage our government. And with
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America the voiceless: Voters can't compete with big campaign cash
American public has ‘virtually no influence’ over politics in face of wealthy interest groups, study finds
April 16, 2014 11:30PM ET
by Wilson Dizard @willdizard
It’s not just your imagination: The influence of money in politics has indeed drowned out the voices of American voters, a new analysis shows, with runaway corporate lobbying and a lack of campaign finance reform to blame for giving much more
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